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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

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• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

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• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

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• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.

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• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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:Thanks. Fixed it to Broadway theatre. — ERcheck (talk) 20:52, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

File:Information.svg Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. A page you recently created, :Russell Wiggins (actor), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so it has been moved to Draft:Russell Wiggins (actor) where you can continue to work on it. Please consider using the Article Wizard or the Articles for Creation procedure. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read "Your first article". You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. I really recommend that you work on the article in draftspace, making sure that it is properly sourced and referenced using reliable and independent sources, before you decide to move it back to mainspace. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 09:42, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

::: SunloungerFrog - Interesting move. FYI, I've been an editor on Wikipedia since 2005, and I'm also Administrator; thus the use of the template wording in to suggest learning about creating articles was bewildering. Your move of stub article Russell Wiggins (actor) to draft space was surprising; being made after only a few days. (Note that there are quite a few stub articles with only IMDb in the external links.) That said, I've expanded the article in Draft space and would like it moved back to main space. While I could make that move myself, I'm following proper procedure to notify you. — ERcheck (talk) 18:26, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

::::I apologise that you felt slighted by my using a standard user warning template - there is only the one for draftifying articles, I think. I've taken a look at Draft:Russell Wiggins (actor). It is of course better sourced, though I'd say that none of the sources that I could access myself (unfortunately the book and the TCM sources weren't available to me) constituted significant coverage. Please do publish the article if you'd like to. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 21:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

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• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. {{phab|T56145}}

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• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

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Thanks for all your help there! Star Mississippi 23:42, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

:You are welcome! There is more to do to improve the article, but it is nice to get it more up-to-date. — ERcheck (talk) 03:38, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

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• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

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• A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. {{phab|T378488}}
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} tool. {{phab|T376378}}

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• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

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I believe you meant to make this as a user page instead of an article.

Can you move it to User:ERcheck/common.js please? Thank you. ApexParagon (talk) 15:55, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

:It's been a few hours and given you're an admin (and can easily restore the page) I've taken the liberty of deleting ERcheck/common.js for now. I can't move code pages into someone else's userspace, but you should be able to restore it yourself. Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 16:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

:@ApexParagon - Thank you for this! Sorry about the mistake. I'll make the change.

:— ERcheck (talk) 17:06, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

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:This is nice to be able to see the impact, in terms of page views, of featuring an article in DYK. — ERcheck (talk) 01:02, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

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• Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.

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• Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
• An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{t|sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
• An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

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